elisha wiesner wrote:Say what you will about pointy headstocks and bright colors but these early 80's Charvels are built about as well as a guitar can be built and if you're willing to look and wait, they can turn up pretty cheap.

Meh - how many people who bitch about pointy metal guitars are perfectly fine with other weird shit like those 70s Teisco or Fujigen guitars, though? I love my shitty King V. Fuck it.

Strat Am Vint '62 (late 90s I believe), Westbury Deluxe (1980), Yamaha LL16 in ugly sunburst (2010). I am quite fond of them. The Westbury in particular, her neck and heavy weight and slightly sticky black surface, puts me in the mood for tender love. And the Strat resonates very nicely, like a big house made of wire and amber in the dry mountain wind. And the Yamaha is loud, and if I rub ever so softly the friction ridges of my fingerprint across one string, she whispers beautifully and sings slender harmonics, and it was cheap.